I always wanted grandchildren. AI and an uncertain future have complicated that dream.

The author didn't think she'd continue worrying about her kids after almost 40 years of parenting.

Then came AI.

Courtesy of the author I've spent nearly 40 years worrying about the safety of my two children.

My kids are grown, but AI has given me a new reason to worry about them.

I feel guilty about the uncertain world my generation is leaving behind.

When I thought about all the things that I, as a mother, should warn my children against, protect them from, perhaps even apologize for, Artificial Intelligence was not among them.

I am a Generation Jones mother with two millennial children in their 30s, and the end of the world is nigh.

I am really, really, very sorry but I have become OK with my children remaining childless.

Having another generation to worry about seems overwhelming.

I'm a parent who worries Fifteen years ago, at dinner at my house, some friends and I began to talk about the singularity — a hypothetical scenario in which AI surpasses human capabilities .

This was the first time I had thought about AI taking over the world and ridding us of, well, us.

Other than science fiction, which I found scarily convincing but not really personally threatening, as I had always been more interested in the theoretical than its coming reality.

But a friend who was a certified geek and programmer insisted that it was coming: fast and soon.

I really haven't stopped thinking about it since.